Asmau Joda (Ms)

Asmau Joda is a well known feminist who has been part of the women’s movement in Nigeria, Africa and internationally and a woman’s human rights activist based in Yola Adamawa State in north-eastern Nigeria. She is the founder of the Centre for Women and Adolescent Empowerment, an organisation that works with the community to empower women and adolescents to take responsibility for their own rights, and know their rights and responsibilities both as citizens and as women and men.Her work has included stopping child marriages, securing divorce for women in abusive or unhappy marriages, and getting legal redress for girls who have been raped.